James Pinto

Job Duties

Develop an expert system that combines observation-based nowcasting with short-term (< 6 hr) NWP forecasts on a national scale for use by the National Weather Service and Aviation industry.

Professional Interests

Short-term forecasting, mesoscale meteorology, boundary layer processes, cloud microphysics, using/developing UAV technologies for sampling local atmospheric processes.

Education

BS Cornell University, 1990, Agronomy/Meteorology
MS Penn State University 1993, Meterology
PhD University of Colorado, Atmospheric Science (PAOS) 1997

Selected Publications

Pinto, J.O., D.B. Parsons, W.O.J. Brown, S. Cohn, N. Chamberlain and B. Morley, 2005: Mean and turbulence characteristics of downvalley flow channeled between two large basins. J. Appl. Meteor., submitted.

Morrison, H. and J.O. Pinto, 2005: Intercomparison of bulk microphysics schemes in mesoscale simulations of a springtime arctic mixed-phase stratus. Mon. Wea. Rev., in review.

Morrison, H.C. and J.O. Pinto, 2005: Mesoscale modeling of springtime arctic mixed-phase stratiform clouds using a new two-moment bulk microphysics scheme. /J. Atmos. Sci./ in press.

Curry, J.A., J. Maslanik, G. Holland and J. Pinto, 2004: Applications of Aerosondes in the Arctic. /Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc/., 85, 12, doi: 10.1175/BAMS-85-12-1855.

Banta, R.M., L.S. Darby, J.D. Fast, J.O. Pinto, W.J. Shaw, D.Whiteman, 2004: Nocturnal low-level jet in a mountain basin complex. I. Evolution and effects on local flows. /J. Appl. Meteor/., 43, 1348-1365.

Morrison, H., and J. O. Pinto, 2004: A new approach for obtaining advection profiles for single column modeling: Application to SHEBA, /Mon. Wea. Rev./, 132, 687-702.

Pinto, J. O., J. A. Curry and J. M. Intrieri, 2001: Cloud-aerosol interactions during autumn over Beaufort Sea. /J. Geophys. Res./, *106*, 13077-15097.

Pinto, J. O., 1998: Autumnal mixed-phase cloudy boundary layers in the arctic. /J. Atmos. Sci./, *55*, 2016-2038.